Political advice : past, present and future / editors, Colin Kidd, Jacqueline Rose.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kidd, Colin, editor.

Rose, Jacqueline, 1982- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public administration--Decision making.

Public administration.

Public administration--Decision making--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

Place of Publication:

London [England] : I.B. Tauris, 2021.

Summary:

"The continuing churn of political advisers in Donald Trump's White House serve as a reminder of the salience and relevance of political advice. Political Advice: Past, Present and Future brings several very different voices to bear on the problem of advice and influence; the distinction in so far as it is valid between political and policy advice; the two-way parasitism of adviser and advised; the nature and idioms of political advice literature; the changing (and sometimes unchanging) nature of expertise; the ever-pressing issue of access and exclusion; and how that is controlled. This volume of essays feeds into a contemporary concern, set in a wider historical context. Moreover, the volume treats political advice in an interdisciplinary fashion with contributions from classics and literature as well as from history and politics. The unique practitioners' perspective to the problem of political advice is brought by the contributions of politicians, political advisers and senior civil servants."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. Introduction Jacqueline Rose and Colin Kidd

2.What would Pericles Do?-And Why It Still Matters Esther Eidinow

3.Obliquus ductus: Indirect Political Advice in the Renaissance Joanne Paul

4.How Not to Do It: Poets and Counsel, Thomas Wyatt to Geoffrey Hill Colin Burrow

5.William Davison and the perils of advice in Elizabethan England Jacqueline Rose

6.Parliament counsels the Crown: advice, rhetoric and party politics since the seventeenth century Paul Seaward

7.Adam Smith and Political Advice: Three Smithian Moments Jesse Norman

8.The Central Policy Review Staff: a useful model? William Waldegrave

9.Astrology and Advice at the Reagan Court Colin Kidd

10.Expertise and advice in two referendum campaigns Jim Gallagher

11.Revisiting the Eagle and the Lion: Politics, policy and the JCPOA Ali Ansari

12.'You've got to ask the right expert': Political ideologies of advice-giving Marius Ostrowski

13.Effective Political Advice in an Age of Populism Martin Donnelly

14.The Future of Political Advice: The Problem of Cybersecurity: Lucas Kello

15.Afterword Robin Butler.

ISBN:

9781838604752

1838604758

9781838604776

1838604774

9781838604769

1838604766

OCLC:

1235966902